Virginity (1937)
Overview
The doomed love of a city girl caught in the vise of poverty is detailed in Vavra’s fluid, romantic work, one of the most elegant creations of the Czech Modernist era... The film lingers over its characters’ habitats and haunts, finding psychological truths in what each owns or desires, and countering every Hollywood-ready scene of gleaming restaurants and dazzling penthouses with realist moments of employment lines and crammed flats. Vavra’s classical camerawork and aura of romantic defeatism give Virginity a force comparable to the master of this genre, Hollywood’s Frank Borzage. (BAM/PFA)
Cast
Lída Baarová
Hana Poláčková
Jaroslava Skorkovská
Hanina matka
František Kreuzmann
Hanin otčím
Ladislav Boháč
Pavel Jimeš
Zdeněk Štěpánek
Josef Nevostrý
Adina Mandlová
Lili
Božena Šustrová
Mary
Jaroslav Průcha
Rudolf Res
Vítězslav Boček
Hejtmánek
Bedřich Veverka
MUDr. Mikula
Anna Steimarová
Marie Ježková
Barča
Jan W. Speerger
Milada Smolíková
Milka Balek-Brodská
Jarmila Bechyňová
Tereza
František Filipovský
Jenda
